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June 2020

June 15, 2020
Yes, the plague is killing thousands! and Yes, the oppressors are brutal! and Yes, the...
June 10, 2020
The fnords are the cliche phrases and stock tropes that obscure the truth without actually...

May 2020

May 28, 2020
This period of change isn't over and will not be for some time. That means...
May 08, 2020
But on my shopping trips over the past few weeks I've been struck by how...

April 2020

April 05, 2020
If we accept the Way of the Fool, we can keep perfect hope even at...

March 2020

March 28, 2020
It is Papa Legba (not "the devil") whom we meet at the crossroads. And what...
March 19, 2020
A bit more than twenty years ago, after my 30th birthday, I went away for...
March 08, 2020
We might find each of these groups sympathetic. Artists, poets, nature lovers, advocates for alternative...

February 2020

February 26, 2020
This image brings to mind the way in which the solid, rational, straight-line world supports...
February 14, 2020
Given the significance of Douglass to the abolition movement, this fight with Covey might fairly...
February 09, 2020
I seldom remember my dreams, but sometimes they are humdingers. From this one came a...
February 01, 2020
She is the totem of the United States, and if her attributes seem contradictory and...

January 2020

January 28, 2020
There is no avoiding the breaking, the cracking, the flaws. But it is up to...
January 20, 2020
Divine voices work mysteriously
January 07, 2020
Fifty is a big landmark. And now that I've almost gotten there, in some ways...
January 06, 2020
but I am a magician, a poet in the realm of acts and what I...

December 2019

December 31, 2019
As I considered what I need for this coming year, and what I think we...
December 31, 2019
The year remains New until Imbolc, more or less midway between December's winter solstice and...
December 16, 2019
I've done it every year since, and I'm come to think of it as keeping...
December 16, 2019
At first glance the 1980s action movie Roadhouse seems a world away from the eight-century-old...
December 11, 2019
Magic gives us the power to believe that we, individually, are important. In that, we...

November 2019

November 25, 2019
The 1621 celebration was not identified by anyone as the "First Thanksgiving" until 1841, when...

October 2019

October 30, 2019
Death is the great mystery, the undiscovered country, the unavoidable confrontation with the boundaries of...
October 23, 2019
But as the creepier side of the season reminds us, sometimes unwelcome presences can push...
October 19, 2019
The Pagan community is growing more diverse. This is a good thing! But it means...
October 09, 2019
Imagine that we could hop in our TARDIS and jump back to the Golden Age...

September 2019

September 26, 2019
The social-media-viral cult of personality around Greta Thunberg is a glamour being cast as what...
September 21, 2019
It strikes me that, if ritual is "poetry in the realm of acts", then a...
September 18, 2019
I share this so that you may know it, if when next you grieve (for...
September 10, 2019
And our society is too much Aresian and too little Athenian. We are too ready...
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